Cristian Fajardo
Product Designer UX Designer
Detailed-oriented UX designer that provides innovative and elegant design solutions to enhance users’ experience by upholding user-centric design principles that lead to achieving business goals and user satisfaction.
adv948@r.postjobfree.com
www.chfdesigns.com
EXPERIENCE
UX Designer, Intern — Career Organic OCTOBER 2021 - JANUARY 2022
- Collaborated with a UX Design Team to develop the Career Cram Course into a marketable and intuitive B2C product using Figma and Miro
- Provided high-quality, on-brand design deliverables based on insights gathered from surveys, user interviews, usability testing, and card sorting
- Created coherent, user-centered designs in the Kajabi platform to relaunch Career Cram as apart of Career Organic
Sr Instructor Associate — General Assembly OCTOBER 2021 - PRESENT
- Design and facilitate interactive lectures to prepare UX apprentices to enter the User Experience Design field
- Mentored and developed incoming UX Designers through project-based learning
- Subject matter expert on designing in Figma
- Provide instruction, feedback, and educational assistance to a remote class of 30+ User Experience Design apprentices
UX Designer, Fellowship — General Assembly JUNE 2021 - SEPTEMBER 2021
- Strategized and executed product vision from inception to hand-off through the design process
- Conducted business and user research, usability tested, and iterated designs to meet user needs
- Collaborated with team to make deliverables and provide recommendations based on usability analytics to create aesthetically pleasing and user friendly UI
- Created information architecture, interaction designs, low fidelity to high fidelity wireframes, and prototypes using Figma
Optical Assistant/Optical Biller/Frame Stylist — Locations: Franklin Square Eye Care JANUARY 2018 - MAY 2021
- Gathered customer insights through direct engagement to best determine and suggest product recommendations.
- Curated an exemplary customer journey through interpreting and translating complex industry jargon for customers, eliminating comprehension pain points and leading to over 90% retention rate among clients.
- Supported the implementation of a customized patient experience, and collaborated with business stakeholders and staff to streamline communications and sustain long-term relationships.
VOLUNTEER
Museum Tour Guide — Metropolitan Museum of Art JANUARY 2018 - FEBRUARY 2020
- Conducted extensive research on curated pieces to best highlight relevancy to the theme of the tour. This also allowed me to bring out interesting points depending on my audience to better engage them
EDUCATION
Front End Web Dev. — General Assembly DECEMBER 2021 -MARCH 2022 UX/UI Certificate — General Assembly JUNE 2021 - SEPTEMBER 2021 Certificate for Vision Technology — Co-Opt Tech SEPTEMBER 2014 - JUNE 2015 SKILLS
Research
User Interview
Surveys
Card Sorting
Competitive and
Comparative Analysis
Usability Testing
Contextual Inquiries and
Observations
Design
UI Design
Design System
Information Architecture
Content Strategy
Prototyping
Branding Design
Wireframing
Interaction Design
Sketching
User Flows
Personas
User Journey Maps, Affinity
Mapping
Visual Communication
Illustration
Soft Skills
Public Speaking
Critical Thinking
Communication
Collaboration
creativity
Problem Solving
Leadership
TOOLS
Figma
Invision
Adobe XD
Sketch
Marvel
CSS/HTLM
Miro, Jira, Notion, Trello
Google Workspace
LANGUAGES
Spanish